Look what you made her do.
Taylor Swift, in a transfer to finish a long-running struggle over who owns her tune, introduced Friday that she has purchased again the rights to her first six albums.
“All of the music I’ve ever made now belongs to me,” the Karma singer wrote, pronouncing the scoop on her legitimate site. “I’ve been bursting into tears of joy … ever since I found out this is really happening.”
Swift at the beginning misplaced the rights to her complete catalogue of tune in 2019 when her first checklist label, Big Machine, offered them to tune manufacturer Scooter Braun. It kicked off a feud between the singer and Braun, the latter of whom has fallen from grace within the tune trade because of this.
In November 2020, Braun became round and offered the grasp recordings to the non-public fairness company Shamrock Capital for a reported US$300 million.
As a consequence, Swift introduced that she would re-record her albums to possess her new masters in a challenge known as Taylor’s Version.

Her first re-recorded album, Fearless (Taylor’s Version), got here out in April 2021, and he or she has since launched new variations of Red, 1989 and Speak Now.
It was once of venture that has paid off for the singer-songwriter — the entire releases have long gone to No. 1 at the Billboard 200 album chart, and he or she has impressed different singers to try to regain keep an eye on of their very own grasp recordings.

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Now that she owns all of her unique paintings, Swift additionally hinted at what’s to return — particularly addressing the long-awaited, extremely expected liberate of Reputation (Taylor’s Version), which has had Swifties salivating for the reason that conclusion of her record-breaking Eras Tour.
“I know, I know. What about Rep TV? Full transparency: I haven’t even re-recorded a quarter of it,” she wrote within the replace posted to her site Friday.
“The Reputation album was so specific to that time in my life, and I kept hitting a stopping point when I tried to remake it. All that defiance, that longing to be understood while feeling purposely misunderstood, that desperate hope, that shame-born snarl and mischief.
“To be perfectly honest, it’s the one album in those first 6 that I thought couldn’t be improved upon by redoing it. Not the music, or the photos, or videos. So I kept putting it off. There will be a time (if you’re into the idea) for the unreleased vault tracks from that album to hatch. I’ve already completely re-recorded my entire debut album, and I really love how it sounds now,” she persevered, including that “if it happens, it won’t be from a place of sadness and longing for what I wish I could have. It will just be a celebration now.”

In June of 2024, Braun introduced that he was once retiring from tune control.
In his observation, Braun discussed quite a few his purchasers from through the years, however now not Swift: Ariana Grande, Justin Bieber, Andrew Watt, Lil Dicky, Tori Kelly, J Balvin, Demi Lovato, Zac Brown Band, Martin Garrix, David Guetta, Steve Angello, Carly Rae Jepsen, PSY and Quavo amongst them.
Many of the artists he indexed had dropped Braun as a supervisor through that point.
“Every client I have had the privilege of working with has changed my life, and I know many of them are just beginning to see the success they deserve,” he stated. “I will cheer for every single one of them.”
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